Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.” - Deborah Levy

“The world reveals itself to those who walk” — Werner Herzog

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” - Cyril Connolly

…the more time we spend in the tower’s mirror world of abstractions and the higher we climb, the more important it is that we hold on to a fistful of mud.

Outer Score Cards don’t matter. Inner Score cards count.

If possible do Pre-mortems.